The 24-year-old had been convicted of the murder of a 14-year-old boy seven years earlier. The driver’s days are not in danger.
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A young repeat offender was arrested a few days after the attack on a taxi driver with a cutter in Saint-Forget in the Yvelines, franceinfo learned from a judicial source on Saturday September 3. The 24-year-old man was arrested in Normandy.
The facts go back to the night of Tuesday to Wednesday: the young man is suspected of having taken a taxi at the Gare de Lyon, in Paris, then of having struck several blows with a box cutter at the neck of his driver, before steal his car. The 33-year-old driver was hospitalized and was prescribed 10 days of ITT. A “miraculous” record, according to a source familiar with the matter.
The suspect had already been sentenced to 22 years in prison in 2014, after the assassination of Maxime Roussel, 14, in a wood in Etouvans (Doubs). According to a source familiar with the matter, it was his first leave.